astroboy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all

we've just migrated from one CMS to another and the URLs are all different (yes I know that some people frown on this, but I have to make do with what's in front of me).

However, I have a database table that maps the old URL to the new ones, so I set the Apache error document to a perl script that will look up the mapping and redirect to the new url.

However, it's ocurred to me that I don't know how to get the requested address in my perl script. Dumping the %ENV hash only shows the error document script. Is there a way to get the original request? (mod_perl isn't an option, I'm afraid, otherwise I'd just intercept the request and do the translation before Apache would raise the not found error)

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Re: Website reorg - directing to the new URL
by idsfa (Vicar) on Mar 25, 2006 at 03:27 UTC

    mod_rewrite with a prg MapType looks like what you want. The example on the page I linked to even uses perl ...

    #!/usr/bin/perl
$| = 1;
while (<STDIN>) {
    # ...put here any transformations or lookups...
    print $_;
}

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Re: Website reorg - directing to the new URL
by TedPride (Priest) on Mar 25, 2006 at 03:15 UTC
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